Autonomy is the key

Abstract

Electronic textiles become smart by embedding circuits and sensors which offer some passive or active capabilities. Smart textiles become intelligent due to their computational abilities allowing awareness of their environment, extract input data from it, and consequently demonstrate untaught behaviours. Intelligent systems require machine intelligence through artificial intelligence algorithms to complete these input data manipulations. However, producing intelligent electronic textiles is a current research challenge. Hypothesising their eventuality and ubiquity, challenges such as remote communication, power generation, data processing, security, and ethics arise. In what remains we focus on the ethical implications and approaches to risk mitigation.

Frequency-Based Design of Smart Textiles

“…Working with smart textiles is an interdisciplinary endeavour encompassing several academic fields, each with their own approach in developing interactions. Smart textile interactions can be a product of an artistic research journey [25] or explored using extreme engineering methods [21]. Nonetheless, to make a smart textile interactive, practitioners have to utilise some form of electronic sensing.…”